Phillips High

Phillips High is a micro-enrollment secondary school in Raleigh, North Carolina, overseen by Wake County Schools. The school enrolls 123 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 84% smaller than the state mean of about 761.

Across the 198 schools in Wake County Schools (163,176 students total), Phillips High accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Phillips High logs that the most-represented group is Black (38%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 34% Hispanic, 20% White, 7% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.

On the resource side, On paper, Phillips High has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 4.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 19.6:1, putting Phillips High tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 96% of students at Phillips High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Wake County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Wake County put the typical household earns roughly $105,768 per year, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Wake County's 237 public schools (combined enrollment of about 184,790 students), Phillips High is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Longview, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Phillips High.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 4%: 118 students in 2018 compared to 123 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 52% to 38% across the same window.

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